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Cory C. Albrecht
Hello all,
Anybody know how to get FrontPage 2003 to not puke when it comes to file
names or directory names that begin with a "."?
I got the FP2K3 evaluation version from Mcrosoft to check it out since a
lot of clients (and potential clients) use FP of one version or another.
However, the server for my personal home page is Linux+Apache, which
means that I have many files and directories which start while a "."
(which on un*x is essentially equivalent to the Hidden file attribute in
FAT & NTFS). if I try to synchronize the local & remote copies, or
download a file that starts with a ".", FP2K3 tells me "Server Error:
The URL: '.cpan' is invalid. It may refer to a nonexistent file or
folder, or refer to a valid file or folder that is not in the current
Web.". Now, obviously, that is a dumb thing fro FP2K3 to say because the
URL is not invalid. How the heck does FP deal with common files like
htacces, .htpasswd or .htgroups?
Also, FP2K3, in the folder list, wont even let me create a directory
called ".cpan" -- when I hit enter it just goes back to "New-Folder".
Especially dumb, because in Windows Explorer I can make a diretcory
called ".cpan", but FP2K3 never sees it on either the Folder list or the
local website view.
Because of this problem, I have to go through each diretory and
subdirect and manually transfer each and every file that has changed,
instead of just setting publish to synchronize and hitting the button.
Is it possible to get around this limitation in FP2K3?
<rant tone="quite annoyed">Who were the doofuses at MS who made the
decision to have FP act like this? Might as well go back to just using
vim and ncftp - since that would work just as good as FP2K3.</rant>
Anybody know how to get FrontPage 2003 to not puke when it comes to file
names or directory names that begin with a "."?
I got the FP2K3 evaluation version from Mcrosoft to check it out since a
lot of clients (and potential clients) use FP of one version or another.
However, the server for my personal home page is Linux+Apache, which
means that I have many files and directories which start while a "."
(which on un*x is essentially equivalent to the Hidden file attribute in
FAT & NTFS). if I try to synchronize the local & remote copies, or
download a file that starts with a ".", FP2K3 tells me "Server Error:
The URL: '.cpan' is invalid. It may refer to a nonexistent file or
folder, or refer to a valid file or folder that is not in the current
Web.". Now, obviously, that is a dumb thing fro FP2K3 to say because the
URL is not invalid. How the heck does FP deal with common files like
htacces, .htpasswd or .htgroups?
Also, FP2K3, in the folder list, wont even let me create a directory
called ".cpan" -- when I hit enter it just goes back to "New-Folder".
Especially dumb, because in Windows Explorer I can make a diretcory
called ".cpan", but FP2K3 never sees it on either the Folder list or the
local website view.
Because of this problem, I have to go through each diretory and
subdirect and manually transfer each and every file that has changed,
instead of just setting publish to synchronize and hitting the button.
Is it possible to get around this limitation in FP2K3?
<rant tone="quite annoyed">Who were the doofuses at MS who made the
decision to have FP act like this? Might as well go back to just using
vim and ncftp - since that would work just as good as FP2K3.</rant>